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From the early 1870s until his death in 1902, John Mackay was among the richest men in the world and was without a doubt the wealthiest man to emerge from Nevada's fabulous …
Founded in 1859, Virginia City quickly became world famous for its extraordinary prosperity. Over the next two decades, the mines of "e;the Richest City on Earth"e; yielded …
The Bodie Mining District was established in 1860 after the discovery of gold deposits in the area. Bodie's largest boom ended just over twenty years later, but the town survived …
The Cortez Hills Expansion Project archaeological excavations uncovered a wealth of information about the Cortez Mining District, from its beginning in 1863 to the …
Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas-Tombstone and Jerome-historian Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecting the process of bust …
Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little …
At the dawn of the twentieth century, the US-Mexico border was home to some of the largest and most technologically advanced industrial copper mines. This despite being …
California s Calaveras County made famous by Mark Twain and his celebrated Jumping Frog is the focus of this comprehensive study of Mother Lode mining. Most histories of the …